So’ud aten, Egypt – it is a familiar story: the leader’s whims raise the lives of citizens and lead them to the wilderness.
in Ancient Egyptand Pharaoh It was not different. He decided that his residents should stop worshiping multiple gods, more than 3300 years ago, who asked the residents to close their homes and workshops in the city of So’ud Aten with clay and clay bricks and move to a new home, a prominent Egyptian scientist, Zawi Hawass, for NBC News last month.
“When the king makes a decision, everyone must obey the decision,” said Hawas. “This is the pharaoh.”
It was very fast that migration has left many behind a group of items including jewelry, pottery, children’s shoes and children’s toys, as well as pizza peel similar to those used to make bread through their grandchildren in the modern era – a treasure that is now recovered by archaeologists. NBC News has been granted exclusively to the latest results.
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But many mystery is still in a city that he not only discovered four years ago by archaeologists looking for a mad temple where the animal skeletons were arranged for religious rights. Egyptian scientists may never discover the reason for fish covering gold.
A variety of pottery pieces is still discovered in a blue color used only for kings.
“Nobody can really explain this,” said Hawas, adding that about 500 statues of Sekhmet, the goddess of healing, were found, at the site, which was called “the lost golden city”, partly because it flourished during the golden age of Egypt.
Today it is a sleeping patch from the desert, surrounded by a metal fence and a dusty road. Archaeologists work in the incendiary sunlight on the site where an artificial lake has been discovered with boats recently, and is likely to be created to deliver goods and send them to the Nile.
Distinctive walls served or a snake of the purpose of the flood water that deviated, providing an outdoor operating work space protected from sunlight and limiting entry into the area.
Its location although it is very important. It is located near the vineyard, which is an ancient city in central Egypt, surrounded by historical monuments, including Colossian Memnon, Minat Habu and Aramium Temple. During the eighteenth family, this royal was Egypt.
“So’ud Aten provides important information about the high standard of craftsmen and craftsmen as well as” the daily life of people “, who were so good to the extent that archaeologists” found many bathing inside homes. “
In the past few months, Hawas said a group of administrative buildings similar to the police station or city hall have been unveiled.
Egypt scientist Zawy Hawas.
“It is a time shot,” said Salim Ekram, a professor of Egyptology at Cairo University.
She said that the workers have just put their tools, adding: “Their things are lying about them. They are in the midst of making, as you know, they see hiding a cow. They cut the sandals, and suddenly, all this.”
Hawas said another recent discovery, which is the image of a sun engraved on the wall of a room in the city area where spinning, leather works, skin and jewelry were carried out, indicating a shift in religious thinking over time.
Then in his changing life, two brothers decided that his citizens should worship Atin, which was represented by the sun, adding that it may have been the first historical example of monotheism.
Others like IKRAM prefer to define him as Hinoths – a person who worships a specific god, while admitting the existence and worship of other gods.
Hawas said that two brothers were “hated” the religious priests who benefited from the worship of multiple gods.
“He wanted to go to the place of worship in Atin,” said Hawas, adding that he chose a site known today as Tell-IE Amarna, about 200 miles south of the capital of Egypt, Cairo.
Hawas said that he described the new city as “the rise of Atin”, adding that he believed that he was an inspiration to build the city by his father, Amin and III, who ruled Egypt from 1391 until 1353 BC
A picture of the sun was found in the So’ud Aten area where spinning, leather works and jewelry were produced.
queen NefertitiHawas added that the most famous wife of Akhninin was walking in the streets next to him.
Yasmine El Shazli, deputy director of the American Research Center in Egypt, who provides financial assistance to some archaeologists, said. “We know that during the AENHOTEP LLL era, the religion has become increasingly solar. There is evidence of ATEN, but there are other gods as well. So we know that it was not unilateral at the time.”
But other gods, even the main god Amon, stated, “became forbidden.”
Colossi of Memnon King Aminat Lille and the father of two Akhainin.
After the death of two Akhninin, the city continued by the Pharaohs, including TotanthThe grave was almost discovered in the Valley of the Kings by British archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922.
What citizens thought about leaving their original house in So’ud Aten is still unclear.
By preventing the doors, Hawas said it seemed that they were thinking that they might return and want to “keep it safe.”
But at the time, he said no one can raise his objections to the pharaoh. He said: “No one can speak to the king.”
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